In case your life has been missing in comparatively obscure ’90s platformers, your 2024 is about to get an entire lot extra attention-grabbing. Konami unveiled that it will likely be bringing a few collections of precisely that to Nintendo Change later this yr. Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked and Felix the Cat Assortment are the compilations in query, containing an assortment of SNES, NES, Sport Boy, and SEGA Genesis-era video games. Right here’s the rundown of what’s in every:
Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked
Rocket Knight Adventures (SEGA Genesis)
Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 (SEGA Genesis)
Sparkster (SNES)
Felix the Cat Assortment
Felix the Cat (NES)
Felix the Cat (Sport Boy)
The collections are being produced in collaboration with Restricted Run Video games, using that firm’s Carbon Engine to carry the titles to Change. There are pre-orders for bodily editions that might be opening up for every assortment through LRG which you’ll be able to take a look at right here, however in the event you fancy digital variations these may also change into accessible sooner or later in 2024 (no precise launch dates have been given but).
For the uninitiated, Rocket Knight was developed by Konami and revolves across the exploits of Sparkster, a opossum with a rocket pack and a sword that may shoot vitality blasts at his foes, whereas Felix the Cat is a well-liked cartoon character from the Nineteen Twenties. The video games from the Felix assortment have been developed by Hudson Mushy, which was absorbed by Konami in 2011. Of the 2 compilations, the Felix video games are arguably the toughest to return by of their authentic kind, with full bodily copies of the NES and Sport Boy titles promoting for a whole bunch of {dollars} apiece.
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